• Front Matter R1-R12

• 1. Introduction 1-12

• The Earth as a System 13-14

• 2. A New Science of the Earth 15-19

• 3. Lessons from the Geologic Past 20-30

• 4. System Interactions: Atmosphere, Oceans, Land, and Humans 31-48

• 5. Humanity: An Agent of Global Environmental Change 49-60

• The Faces of Global Eniornmental Change 61-62

• 6. Global Warming 63-77

• 7. Food, Water, and Changing Climate 78-89

• 8. Coastlines and Rising Seas 90-102

• 9. The Ozone Layer and Ultraviolet Radiation 103-115

• 10. Vanishing Forests and Vanishing Species 116-130

• 11. Lakes, Forests, and Acid Deposition 131-144

• Afterword 145-158

• Appendixes 159-160

• A. Selected Reading 161-162

• B. Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future: Agenda and Speakers 163-166

• C. Committee on Global Change and Oversight Committee Members 167-168

• D. Letter on Global Environmental Change to President-Elect George Bush from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine 169-186

• Index 187-196

Silver, Cheryl Simon, DeFries, Ruth S. " Index ." One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1990 .

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